Kingswood Oxford High School - Retrospect Yearbook (West Hartford, CT)

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KI Mi N WII I) I) S CIIII0 L Wesl IIartInrd Connecticut CLASS OFFICERS ROBERTSON MACKAY, President STEPHEN CLARK PEASLEE, Vice-President LEE DAVIES BELLMER, Secretary 7

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- V'W. FOR ’FORTY-SIX Spawned in the sandy shallows Where sun-warmed water Ripples insistent toward the distant sea, Swiftly the smolts grow. Skipping, scurrying, splashing. Dimpling the sheltered river As they leap for flies; Then, urged by some primal impulse, They surge downstream. Vigorous, eager, Seeking the depths of ocean. Vanishing, none knows whither. . . . Later, when moons have waned, Tides have counted their cadence, Back to the stream of their birth, So long deserted. Swift they will speed— Back o'er the foaming falls To the placid pools, Riffles and rips they knew— Now fullgrown, armored in flashing silver, Pulsing with life, Safe, now, from treacherous net, From ocean perils. . . . So may you seek the sea. Fare forth from our river, Try your newfelt strength In the world's wide waters. Fearless, eager; Then, with each venture ended. Throng, none failing, Leaping the ledges of time. The falls of distance, Back to the School Which knew you, waits your coming... . Harold Willard Gleason AA

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Charles Frederick Bartlett Charlie entered Kingswood in the fourth form under the alias of Charles Berg. That fall he went out for the intermediate football team. Enlisting in J.E.G.’s calisthenics course that winter he found it so easy he worked off his excess energy commanding the eraser fights in the classroom, and the faculty was pleased when next spring Charlie devoted more of his time to intermediate baseball. In his junior year Charlie received a letter for his efforts on the varsity soccer team. After another course on the body beautiful” he was again found on the baseball diamond, this time under the guidance of Joe Gargan. When in the spring Charlie’s last name was changed from Berg to Bartlett, many confused souls com- promised on Berglett (rather inaccurate but clever.—Ed.). During his sixth form year Charlie played a rugged game at center half-back during a long and difficult season, earning another major K. Throughout the winter he played basketball every morning, became a stalwart member of the 3:30 Cub, and spent his afternoons working on the selling end of the CLASSBOOK, as he was one-half of the circulation department. On many winter Satuidays Charlie went north with the Outing Club, to set several downhill skiing records. Next year Charlie hopes to enter Williams or Yale and we all sincerely wish him the best of luck! Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.—Emerson. 8